Spanish Fly

“A [Manx (via Mithridates)] game in which one boy gave a back as in leap- frog, the other boys then leapt over him four times– fore and aft and from each side—each calling out as he did so, spanish fly. The process was then repeated, varied by the cry ‘tip on the bot, spanish fly,’…

Hijras

Some Pakistani boys spent Saturday afternoon on the beach burying each other in hermaphrodite sand castles, and so it was that I learned about hijras.